Fwd: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router

From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. (s.molnar_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 12/31/03

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    >From: Nick Selby <ns@nickselby.com>
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    >To: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <smolnar@jadeinc.com>
    >Subject: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router
    >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:21:10 +0100
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    >Hi,
    >This will seem rude but it's not - you really need to post this reply to me
    >(thanks for it) to the list itself. The reason is that people use the list
    >archives as learning tools and reference material, so making this a private
    >conversation deprives future users of the benefits of the thread.
    >
    >So how about resending everything below to the list and then I'll reply there?
    >
    >FYI, there are separate issues here:
    >
    >The router seems to be routing so that's actually a SOLVED issue.
    >
    >The telnet into the MS workstation is a second issue; someone on the list
    >will
    >be able to help with configuring your windows box to allow this.
    >
    >Having your machines truly networked and each others drives available is
    >another issue, which will involve your sharing the drives on your windows
    >machines, setting up SAMBA on the Linux machine, mapping the network drives
    >on your windows box (to allow your windows machines to see the hard disk of
    >the linux machine) and mounting your windows shared drives on the Linux
    >machine via Samba (which amounts to the same thing as mapping a network
    >drive).
    >
    >Those last issues are all separate, but rather straightforward. SAMBA has a
    >browser based configuration tool.
    >
    >So go ahead and re post and I;ll give the same response and add to it, as
    >will
    >other users more expert than me (I have just described most users).
    >
    >Nick
    >
    >
    >
    >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:13, you wrote:
    > > WOW! Let me say that backwards !WOW
    > >
    > > Many, many thanks for your quick reply to my query.
    > >
    > > Amazingly simple, at least so far
    > >
    > > At 08:52 AM 12/31/2003, you wrote:
    > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
    > > > > I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am functionally
    > > > > illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many
    > > > > hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router)
    > > > > what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to
    > > > > communicate with the router?
    > > > >
    > > > > Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet.
    > > >
    > > >Should be rather trivial.
    > > >
    > > >1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your linux
    > > >machine into it.
    > > >
    > > >2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your DSL
    > > >provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms with the
    > > >Linux machine.
    > > >
    > > >3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to speak
    > > > with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc. Click okay
    > > > and let it run suse config
    > >
    > > OK, it's at this point that I don't know what I'm doing. I have
    > > reconfigured the nic to accept a dynamic IP via DHCP and that seems to
    > > work. I can log on to 192.168.1.1/Index.htm and that gets me to the
    > > Linksys page via my browser, I assume that is on my router. The routing
    > > table shows me that I have local and internet interfaces.
    > >
    > > I can ping my Win 2000 box at 192.168.1.100, but when I attempt to telnet
    > > in my connection is rejected. LinNeighborhood AddMachine gives me a query
    > > error when I attempt to access the machine via that route.
    > >
    > > I am totally intimidated by the plethora of choices that yast give me for
    > > configuring things - and there lies the continuation of the problem.
    > >
    > > >4. You should be able now to ping the router; look in the quick set up
    > > >instructions in the box it came in for the router IP address. Open a
    > > > browser window and type in the IP address, something like
    > > >
    > > >http://192.168.123.100
    > > >
    > > >5. You should now be looking at the router's configuration page. Enter
    > > > your ISP's user name and password and other information it wants and have
    > > > the router try connecting. It should be that simple.
    > > >
    > > >HTH!
    > > >
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    > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
    > > Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic
    > > http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
    >
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